Improved medical compound



i $183. 133mm grim jletters Patent No. 74,680, dated Februdry 18, 1868 imrsovnn MEDIG'A-L oourouun;

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY eoucs'nm Be it known that LG. W, C. GAMBLE, of Millersbui-g, in the county of Iowa, and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and hsful'Iizibrovemerits in n. MediculCompound for the Cure qf'Ganeer; and Ida hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof;

' My improvement in compositions forcuring eunceiconsists in the combination of the following ingredients, prepared in the manner hereinafter described:

Take ashes of red-oak bark, the bark being either in a. green or dry state, in quantity, twenty pounds; the

ashes of the root known as bittensweetff with its bark either green or dry, five pounds; also, of green pokeroot nhashed fine, five pounds. 4 I

In preparing the compound, take a wooden vessel of suitable size, with-perforations at bottom, being such as is used to'run oil common ash-lye. Into this vessel put about five pounds of the zishes of red-oak bark and of bitter-sweet, when mixed in the proportions above mentioned; then add five poundsof the ruashed poke-root,

with the remaining portion of the ashes of red-oak undbitter-sweet. To this mixture add su fiieient waterto moisten itwithout dripping.' Let the mixture stand twenty-four hours. Then run it ofi'by'adding water until the strength 03 the ashes is exhausted, The extract will now be put in a. metal vessel and boiled to the consistency of salve. The salve ngust now beput in bottles with ground-glass stoppers, and is ready for use. Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cure for cancer, composed of the ingredients set forth, when prepared in the manner substantially as described.

In testimony that I eleim the foregoing as my own, I afiix my signature in presence'of two witnesses,

G. W. C. GAMBLE.

Witnesses:

Jams 13. CARY, J. Q. PEPPER. 

